''Kill The Messenger'' (french: Une Femme à Abattre) is a 2006 French
documentary film
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about
Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a former contract translator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent news website NewsBud.
The FBI hired her as a translator shortly after 9/11 but fired her a ...
. An English version was produced in 2007 by
SBS Australia
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.
The documentary focuses on both Ms. Edmonds's personal struggle to expose the criminality that she uncovered while at the
FBI
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, and also the Sept. 11, 2001 tied 'secret' itself - the network of nuclear black-market,
narcotics and illegal arms trafficking activities. Interviewees include David Rose,
Philip Giraldi
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,
Daniel Ellsberg,
Coleen Rowley
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and
Russell Tice
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In December, 2005, Tice helped spark a national cont ...
.
U.S. premiere
On September 9, 2009, the film had its U.S. premiere at the
9/11 Film Festival at the
Grand Lake Theater
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History
The Grand Lake Theater, designed as a single auditorium theater by Architects R ...
in
Oakland, California
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.
See also
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Axis of Evil
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Baghdad or Bust''
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Control Room
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Overview
A control room's purpose is produc ...
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My Country, My Country
''My Country, My Country'' is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occupation by the filmmaker Laura Poitras.
Film
Laura Poitras spent over eight months working on her own and for some time following a US Army Civil Affairs team during t ...
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War Feels Like War
''War Feels Like War'' is a 2004 British documentary film. Made for BBC Storyville and TV 2 (Denmark), it was broadcast in the United States as part of the ''P.O.V.'' series. The film "portrays journalists who covered the war in Iraq without th ...
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Documentary films about the September 11 attacks
Films set in 2001
2000s English-language films
2000s French films
2006 multilingual films
French multilingual films
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